Lesson #: 8 of 10
Small and large group discussions rely on active listening and the effective
contributions of all participants
Content Area: Reading, Writing, and Communicating
Standard: 2. Reading for All Purposes
Prepared Graduates:
Seek feedback, self-assess, and reflect on personal learning while engaging with
increasingly more difficult texts
Grade Level Expectation: Seventh Grade
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Act 3 Characterization
Approx. Time
80 minutes
Anticipatory
Set
Warm Up Quote:
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Teaching
Strategy:
Guided Practice
&
Differentiation
Teaching
Strategy:
(Independent
Practice)
Closure
Materials
Smart Board
Access to Internet
Paper
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Assessment
Traditional Assessment: Students will take notes on static vs. dynamic characters in
literature.
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3. What do you envision for the next lesson? For the next lesson
students will build upon their knowledge of characterization to help
them understand theme as well as how we can connect themes
between various texts.
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Presentation
Model
Describe or
demonstrate the
lesson introduction
including how you
establish set (i.e.,
prepare students to
learn) and how you
share the lesson
outcome.
Concept Teaching
Describe or
demonstrate an
advance organizer.
Describe or
demonstrate all of
the critical attributes
of the concept,
identify the class or
category to which the
concept belongs.
Describe, picture or
demonstrate learning
materials and
activities specific to
the options of this
model (e.g.,
explaining links and
examples; ruleexample-rule;
signposts and
transitions). Two or
more of the teaching
and learning
activities are rich and
engaging.
Describe, list or
demonstrate one or
more questions, or a
discussion structure
Describe or
demonstrate the
lesson introduction
including how you
establish set (i.e.,
prepare students to
learn) and how you
share the lesson
outcome.
Describe or
demonstrate a clear
progression of
examples and nonexamples; deduction
is illustrated through
the early definition of
the concept;
induction is
illustrated through
definition of the
concept late in the
activities.
Describe or
demonstrate the
Cooperative
Learning
Describe or
demonstrate the
lesson introduction
including how you
establish set (i.e.,
prepare students to
learn) and how you
share the lesson
outcome.
Describe or
demonstrate the
assessment methods
you use to determine
the academic
progress of EACH
student in the class
(i.e., make each
student individually
accountable) and
how you assess the
social and/or
interpersonal skills
identified for
acquisition or
practice during the
lesson.
Describe or
demonstrate the
grouping
arrangement and
the ways in which
you promote positive
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Inquiry
Describe or picture
the instructional
materials and
resources you use to
reveal their
creativity,
functionality, and
appropriateness to
the question(s)
posed.
List the specialists
and field experiences
you included.
Describe or
demonstrate how you
inspire curiosity on
the part of your
students. Describe or
demonstrate your
review of classroom
guidelines for social
and/or interpersonal
skills
Describe or
demonstrate how you
prompt investigative
processes. Reveal
how you facilitate
your students efforts
as they propose how
to gather information,
study, craft an
you provide to
extend your
students thinking on
the content.
Describe or
demonstrate how
your students
demonstrate their
learning. Address
assessment methods
during instruction
(i.e., checking for
understanding), and
after instruction (e.g.,
a quiz, ticket-toleave, etc.).
assessment
processes you use to
test for acquisition of
the concept at key
points during the
presentation of
examples and nonexamples.
Describe, list or
demonstrate one or
more questions, or a
discussion structure
you provide to
extend your
students thinking on
the concept.
Two or more of the
teaching and learning
activities are rich and
engaging.
Describe or
demonstrate how
your students
demonstrate their
learning after
instruction (e.g.,
students summarize
their definition of the
concept orally or in
writing, etc.).
interdependence
between group
members.
experiment, observe
and/or conduct
interviews.
Describe or
demonstrate the
instructional
materials and
resources; address
resource
interdependence as
necessary.
Write or demonstrate
a sample question
through which you
assist students to
make connections
and/or discover new
knowledge
Describe or
demonstrate your
directions for group
formation,
rearranging furniture
(If necessary) and
how
materials/resources
are distributed.
Describe or
demonstrate the
expectations for
demonstration of
interpersonal and
small group skills
Two or more of the
teaching and learning
activities are rich and
engaging.
Describe or
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Summarize or
demonstrate your
method to help
students share their
new ideas with
others. Possible
formats include a
panel discussion, a
debate, a gallery
walk, a science fair,
etc. Frame or
illustrate two
questions during
which you assist your
students to discuss
the conclusions they
can draw from their
collective effort.
Describe or
demonstrate two or
more teaching and
learning activities
that are rich and
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engaging.
Reveal how you
promote reflection.
Share one question
that may prompt
students to reflect on
the process they
followed; share a
second question that
prompts students to
identify new
questions that arose
from this lesson.
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